SoftMaker Office 2010 For Linux Nearing Release

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @02:41PM from the put-your-words-in-a-row dept.

martin-k writes "SoftMaker Office is a Microsoft-compatible office suite that competes with OpenOffice.org. Its creator, German software publisher SoftMaker, is nearing completion of the latest release, SoftMaker Office 2010 for Linux. This new release offers document tabs, high-quality filters for the Microsoft Office 2007 file formats DOCX and XLSX, and presentation-quality charts in the spreadsheet. It also brings integration into KDE and Gnome, using the system's colors and fonts. A release candidate is available as a free download."

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Re:How did this not get binspammed? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-26 20:31 · Score: -1, Troll

A high quality office suite for Linux is important for nerds, even if it's not open source. The lack of availability of commercial proprietary products like Photoshop are one of the reasons Linux continues to be a niche market desktop and barebones only platform.
This is news for nerds. Stop trolling.